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Eating Organic Food: A Healthy Lifestyle Choice
Because organic food is healthier for you in general, contains fewer chemicals and
promotes a better environment, it is a better lifestyle choice. In the last ten years, there has been
much attention paid to organic foods and how they are redefining the way in which we consume
agricultural goods. Various health groups and universities have undergone studies in order to
show that organic food is a better option for consumers. However, major news reporters and
some experts have claimed that there was “hype” with organic food and it did not represent
healthier lifestyle options for consumers. In looking further at organic food and how it differs
from traditional fruits and vegetables (or other food items), it’s clear that there are some benefits
to it that are not present in normal foods.
Organic food is just better for you. Recent studies done by a major research university,
Stanford, have shown that organic food is healthier for you on the grounds that it is not modified
and has better chemicals. While we consider most fruits and vegetables to be the same, going to
the grocery store and picking out our food does not tell us where it came from or how it was
raised. Deirde Imus reported for Fox News that the Stanford organic food study she researched
“revealed that organic fruits and vegetables contain on average 12 percent more health
promoting compounds than conventionally grown produce – compounds like secondary
metabolites, which are believed to protect against obesity, cancer, and heart disease” (Imus).
There are chemicals in organic foods that are natural, great for our immune system and just not
found in other foods that we eat today. Clearly, the fact that organic food is not heavily modified
or tampered by people shows that there are advantages to natural ingredients.
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Also, it is important to remember that organic food is the intended way for humans to eat.
While humans have evolved over the course of thousands of years, our bodies are still oriented
towards eating unmodified food. Because most of the food that we eat today is genetically
modified or treated in some way, it is unnatural by default. As the human body has not had time
to evolve and account for the differences in in the food, organic is the natural food that our body
expects. The organic food that we can buy is wholly not tampered with and represents the closest
we can possibly get to foods that our ancestors actually ate. Given that there are immense health
problems with processed foods such as McDonalds and others, obesity is quite common and
people have yet to realize that these foods are just not natural for humans to eat. Ultimately,
humans have just not evolved enough to process this tampered food better than we can process
organic.
Organic food lacks unhealthy chemicals. Organic foods are made without using
pesticides or other chemicals that are not natural, or healthy, for the human body. Recent studies
at Stanford have showed that organic foods simply lack all of the extraneous pesticides and
chemicals that are normally used to raise agricultural products as well as meats. But, because
some chemicals used in food is seriously dangerous, organic foods are a better choice as they
lack these ingredients. The Stanford study showed that normal foods contained various “types of
pesticides most toxic to people…” that are very dangerous: “These are insecticides that target the
nervous system, and they have been linked in studies of American kids with lower birth weight,
ADHD and hyperactivity” (Castillo). When farmers use chemicals to keep bugs off of their food,
they are simultaneously infecting it with dangerous chemicals that can cause lots of damage to
people as well. Organic foods, however, do not use these unhealthy chemicals in the process of
their production. Also, on the grounds that diseases spread because of toxic chemicals in foods,
Eating Organic Food: A Healthy Lifestyle Choice
Because organic food is healthier for you in general, contains fewer chemicals and
promotes a better environment, it is a better lifestyle choice. In the last ten years, there has been
much attention paid to organic foods and how they are redefining the way in which we consume
agricultural goods. Various health groups and universities have undergone studies in order to
show that organic food is a better option for consumers. However, major news reporters and
some experts have claimed that there was “hype” with organic food and it did not represent
healthier lifestyle options for consumers. In looking further at organic food and how it differs
from traditional fruits and vegetables (or other food items), it’s clear that there are some benefits
to it that are not present in normal foods.
Organic food is just better for you. Recent studies done by a major research university,
Stanford, have shown that organic food is healthier for you on the grounds that it is not modified
and has better chemicals. While we consider most fruits and vegetables to be the same, going to
the grocery store and picking out our food does not tell us where it came from or how it was
raised. Deirde Imus reported for Fox News that the Stanford organic food study she researched
“revealed that organic fruits and vegetables contain on average 12 percent more health
promoting compounds than conventionally grown produce – compounds like secondary
metabolites, which are believed to protect against obesity, cancer, and heart disease” (Imus).
There are chemicals in organic foods that are natural, great for our immune system and just not
found in other foods that we eat today. Clearly, the fact that organic food is not heavily modified
or tampered by people shows that there are advantages to natural ingredients.
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Also, it is important to remember that organic food is the intended way for humans to eat.
While humans have evolved over the course of thousands of years, our bodies are still oriented
towards eating unmodified food. Because most of the food that we eat today is genetically
modified or treated in some way, it is unnatural by default. As the human body has not had time
to evolve and account for the differences in in the food, organic is the natural food that our body
expects. The organic food that we can buy is wholly not tampered with and represents the closest
we can possibly get to foods that our ancestors actually ate. Given that there are immense health
problems with processed foods such as McDonalds and others, obesity is quite common and
people have yet to realize that these foods are just not natural for humans to eat. Ultimately,
humans have just not evolved enough to process this tampered food better than we can process
organic.
Organic food lacks unhealthy chemicals. Organic foods are made without using
pesticides or other chemicals that are not natural, or healthy, for the human body. Recent studies
at Stanford have showed that organic foods simply lack all of the extraneous pesticides and
chemicals that are normally used to raise agricultural products as well as meats. But, because
some chemicals used in food is seriously dangerous, organic foods are a better choice as they
lack these ingredients. The Stanford study showed that normal foods contained various “types of
pesticides most toxic to people…” that are very dangerous: “These are insecticides that target the
nervous system, and they have been linked in studies of American kids with lower birth weight,
ADHD and hyperactivity” (Castillo). When farmers use chemicals to keep bugs off of their food,
they are simultaneously infecting it with dangerous chemicals that can cause lots of damage to
people as well. Organic foods, however, do not use these unhealthy chemicals in the process of
their production. Also, on the grounds that diseases spread because of toxic chemicals in foods,
